Chapter 0974 – Nine Bits

　　”Is that a curse?”

　　Anyone who saw a statue with their name engraved on it having its head chopped off would not feel good in their heart, and Chen Ge was naturally no exception, but he did not act impulsively.

　　Waiting for the headless female ghost and the stench to come over, the four red coats surrounded the costume in the center, and only then did Chen Ge walk forward.

　　”Is the shrine your host?” Chen Ge saw that the red clothes in the theater costumes didn’t reply and took another step forward, “Originally, this had nothing to do with me either, but the clay sculpture in the shrine has my name written on it, and someone was hitting on me, so I had to track it down to the end.”

　　The costume seemed to understand Chen Ge’s words as she shook her head, as if to say that both the shrine and the clay statue in the shrine had nothing to do with Chen Ge at all.

　　”The word Chen Ge is written on the clay statue, and my name is Chen Ge.” Chen Ge put down the chainsaw in his hand, “You can’t fight the four Redcoats alone, and I don’t want to hurt you, so get out of the way.”

　　Under the pressure of the four red coats, the costumed red coat finally stepped aside and stopped blocking.

　　”Xu Yin, give me that clay statue, and bring it over with the head.”

　　The shrine was the biggest secret of this reincarnation haunted house, and Chen Ge was worried that there was a trick in it, so he didn’t go over to get it himself.

　　Pale hands reached into the shrine, Xu Yin grabbed the clay statue’s body, and at the same time, all the “death” characters on the inner walls of the shrine began to ooze blood outwards, and a line of blood stuck to the clay statue’s body, as if it was trying to bind it to death in the middle of the shrine.

　　”Go help.”

　　It took the combined efforts of the headless female ghost and Xu Yin’s two red coats to take out the clay statue, which was very ordinary, like a child casually kneading it out of mud from the river, barely able to make out a human form.

　　”Let me see.”

　　Chen Ge went to take the clay statue, but Xu Yin dodged it, pointing at those black blood stains on the clay statue and gently shaking his head, as if those blood stains would cause great harm to Chen Ge.

　　”Is there a curse on it? Then hold it for me to take a good look.” Chen Ge came up next to Xu Yin, and only when he got closer did he see clearly that in addition to the two words Chen Ge, there were also countless death characters on this clay statue, only that those death characters were very small, carved all around the clay statue’s circumference, and just looking at it gave people a shivering feeling.

　　”This one really doesn’t look like me, covered in dead characters, it should be an Underworld Fetus.”

　　Chen Ge didn’t know why there was this thing in the shrine, nor did he know why that person called Jiang Jiu would build such a scene in the haunted house, but he knew that Zhang Ya seemed to want this clay statue.

　　”You put the clay statue on my shadow.”

　　Xu Yin did as he was told, and after he placed the clay statue on Chen Ge’s shadow, the blood stains on the clay statue were surprisingly slowly fading, as if the things contained in it were being sucked away by Chen Ge’s shadow.

　　”I once found a wooden box in the Weird Tales Association, and back then, Zhang Ya was also very concerned about the black blood stains in the wooden box. That wooden box was brought out from behind the door by the Weird Talk Association after a thousand years of hard work, could it be that this clay statue is also something from behind the door?”

　　Having entered the world behind the door many times, Chen Ge knew very well that it was very difficult to bring out things from that world, so he could hardly see anything related to the world behind the door in reality.

　　The blood stains on the clay statue gradually disappeared, those dead characters carved on the clay statue tightened a little bit, the blood stains seemed to be able to protect the clay statue, now that the blood stains were sucked away by Chen Ge’s shadow, that one dead character was like a nail piercing into the clay statue.

　　The costumed red dress wanted to stop it, but after she got close to Chen Ge’s shadow, she seemed to sense something and retreated back to her original position without Xu Yin stopping her.

　　The last bit of blood disappeared into thin air, the clay figurine shattered on Chen Ge’s shadow, Chen Ge’s heartbeat returned to normal, and the voice deep in his consciousness disappeared as well.

　　”These black blood stains brought out from behind the door seem to be of great help to Zhang Ya, so I can pay more attention to them in the future.”

　　As the clay statue shattered, the dead characters carved on the inner wall of that shrine slowly returned to normal, the person who made the shrine seemed to want to make the clay statue absorb certain things through the shrine, but then control the clay statue to keep it from getting out of control.

　　His idea was good, and normal tourists probably couldn’t run away from this place, but he never expected to welcome Chen Ge on the second day of opening.

　　”If the clay statue is really related to the Underworld Fetus, this matter is very serious.” Chen Ge picked up the shattered clay statue, after losing the blood stains, it was a very ordinary piece of statue, “It seems like I need to find that Jiang Jiu and ask him about it, they are really tired of their lives if they dare to mess up like this in the eastern suburbs.”

　　Putting away the statue, Chen Ge had Xu Yin and Red High Heels check the shrine, and after determining that there were no more abnormalities, they surrounded Costume Red again.

　　What the truth really was, the Costume Redcoat should know clearly, so Chen Ge decided to have a good talk with the other party.

　　”Do you have some sort of handle that has fallen into their hands? Or did you say that originally this shrine belonged to you and was occupied by them by force?”

　　Hearing Chen Ge’s words, the costumed red dress shook her head and nodded again. She seemed to be very scared and kept looking towards the shrine, as if the shrine represented something very scary to her.

　　”I have limited time, so it seems I can only ask you to come back with me.” After some convincing from the four reds, the costumed reds were finally sent to the comic book.

　　”You’ll like that new home.”

　　Chen Ge looked around the shrine and didn’t find any problems, so he finally had to give up.

　　He led the four Redcoats into the last room of the mansion, which had a complete portrait of an evil spirit hanging on the wall, except that the evil spirit’s body was pieced together, with no body parts missing, but it looked very disjointed.

　　Below the portrait was an offering table, and on the table were nine paper figures, eight of which had no names, only the first one had two words written on it – Jiang Jiu.

　　”It’s this Jiang Jiu again.” Chen Ge looked at the paper figures on the table, “If Jiang Jiu is really helping the Underworld Fetus, then is the meaning of these nine paper figures saying that there are eight more people like Jiang Jiu?”

　　Staring at the paper figures on the table, Chen Ge quickly realized another thing.

　　If the entire offering table was viewed as the city of Hanyujiang, the nine paper figures were placed exactly on the nine river streams of Hanyujiang.

　　The River Ham used to be called the Nine Rivers as well, and it was arched by nine large rivers, and the older generation often said that this place was a rare feng shui bureau of the Nine Dragons Playing with Pearls.

　　”Jiang Jiu, pronounced backwards happens to be Jiujiang, could this person be using a fake name?”

　　Without any valuable gains, Chen Ge put away the red clothes around him, took away the key of the youngest boy, and began to continue walking forward.

　　The actors in the haunted house seemed to have been notified, none of the real actors could be seen, instead, the number of projections were numerous, and the density had already reached a perverted point where one would flash by after a few steps.

　　The sixty-minute tour had already passed, Chen Ge was still wandering around the scenes, not that he didn’t want to go out, it was just that there were too many scenes.

　　The center computer was also doing this for the first time, and many scenes were actually forced to be taken out without finishing building them, and there was indeed a certain amount of danger.

　　Chen Ge passed a few more small scenes, the haunted house difficulty had already passed the peak, the frequency of ghosts and monsters appeared less and less, he estimated that he was about to pass all the scenes, and hurriedly looked for an unoccupied place to take off the set of homicidal maniac coat.

　　Wearing a haunted house actor’s clothes is certainly very cool, but he can’t just strut out like this, the purpose has already been achieved, it’s better to keep a low profile.

　　”I didn’t expect to play haunted house until the end, I’m the only one left in the haunted house, so lonely.”